I knew something terrible had happened, says mum

“I knew something terrible had happened,” the mother of a woman who was killed in her home with her three sons told an inquest yesterday.

At the inquest into the deaths of the Hawe family in Co Cavan in August of last year, Mary Coll, mother of Clodagh Hawe, said she found a note on the back door of her daughter’s house for gardaí to be called.

She also revealed a sense of foreboding that her daughter, 39, and grandchildren Liam, 13, Niall, 11, and Ryan, 6, had been killed by her son-in-law, Alan Hawe, at their home on Sunday, August 28, 2016.